UTA (Union de Transports Aériens)

Very similar to its 1969 predecessor except the airplane has changed ... it has a different set of tail fins. Also, the stars in the background of UTA logo have disappeared.

Uzbekistan Airways

Approximate Vintage: 2000

Received From: Manfred Kleber

Print or Image Color: Gold and White

Background / Bag Color: Navy

This bag is voted most likely to have been designed by an etch-a-sketch. Looks like it's covered in pubic hair, kind of.

Uzbekistan Airways

Approximate Vintage: 2006

Received From: Rich Stevens

Print or Image Color: Gray and White

Background / Bag Color: White

This bag is a Gigiyenick Paket, which sounds like it's a hygienic packet only for someone named Gigi.

Uzbekistan Airways

Approximate Vintage: 2008

Received From: Gerd Clemens

Print or Image Color: Gray and White

Background / Bag Color: White

Same as the 2006 version except the airline name and instructions are only printed on the front of this bag.

This bag is a Gigiyenick Paket, which sounds like it's a hygienic packet only for someone named Gigi.

Varig

Approximate Vintage: 1984

Print or Image Color: Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

When you are finished throwing up in this bag, hand it to the Stewardess. Do NOT hand it to a man! Made by Poliem.

Varig

Received From: Thomas Blickle

Print or Image Color: Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

When you are finished throwing up in this bag, hand it to the Stewardess. Do NOT hand it to a man! Made by Plasticogeral (you can kind of see this if you look at the printing inside the translucent bag.)

Varig

Received From: Mike Roselle

Print or Image Color: Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

When you are finished throwing up in this bag, hand it to the Flight Attendant. You can hand it to a woman OR a man!

Darker blue without useless black bar at the top left, but has numbers at bottom right.

Varig

Received From: Thomas Blickle

Print or Image Color: Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

When you are finished throwing up in this bag, hand it to the Flight Attendant. You can hand it to a woman OR a man!

Darker blue without useless black bar at the top left, but has numbers at bottom right.

Varig

Received From: Christoph Vogel

Print or Image Color: Light Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

When you are finished throwing up in this bag, hand it to the Flight Attendant. You can hand it to a woman OR a man!

Missing the useless black bar at the top left, missing Poliem at bottom right.

You can't see it here, but this bag was manufactured by Plascabi.

Varig

Received From: Steve Thompson

Print or Image Color: Light Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

This bag is identical to this other bag except they moved the blue block from the left to the right. Another pointless Varig change. The only difference is that this bag does NOT say Plascabi in the lower crease.

Varig

Received From: Richard David Glueck

Print or Image Color: Light Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

Still another Varig style. This one has Poliem on the left bottom of the bag.

Varig

Received From: Steve Thompson

Print or Image Color: Light Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

Yet another Varig style. This one with the cursive writing, like their Rio-Sul subsidiary.

Varig

Received From: Mike Roselle

Print or Image Color: Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

When you are finished throwing up in this bag, hand it to the Steward. Do NOT hand it to a woman!

Varig

Approximate Vintage: 1993

Received From: Ken Costilow

Print or Image Color: Black and Blue

Background / Bag Color: White

Hey, a South American carrier switched from all plastic to waxed paper! The bag has many instructions in Portugese including, 'Com O Grampo', which I think means 'give bag to your grandfather'. FLASH: Angry Portugeuse have flooded my mailbox claiming that Com O Grampo means 'with a tab', although Eva, a Brazilian waitress at Bertucci's claims that it means you're pregnant.

Varig

Approximate Vintage: 1993

Received From: Steve Thompson

Print or Image Color: Black and Blue

Background / Bag Color: White

This bag is identical to the this other Varig Bag, except this particular one is manufactured by ACS and says so in the fold, which you can't see over the internet.

Varig

Received From: Christoph Vogel

Print or Image Color: Brown

Background / Bag Color: White

The 3 flowers in a row makes the bag look like some weird Brazilian slot machine. Open the bag up and see what you've won! Nice 60's-like Laugh-In hand.

Varig

Approximate Vintage: 2000

Received From: Christian Funch

Print or Image Color: Gold, Tan, Blue, and Gray

Background / Bag Color: White

Very art deco. The logo looks like one of those burrs that you can never get out of your pet's hair.

Varig

Received From: Denir Camargo

Print or Image Color: Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

When you are finished throwing up in this bag, hand it to the Stewardess. Do NOT hand it to a man! Made by Plasticogeral (you can kind of see this if you look at the printing inside the translucent bag.)

This bag is identical to the other Varig Plasticogeral bag from Thomas Blickle except that there are only 2 lines of printing in the bottom gusset instead of 3. Yes, I know I'm being anal.

Varig

Received From: Peter Brown

Print or Image Color: Light Blue

Background / Bag Color: White Plastic

This bag is identical to this other bag except they moved the blue block from the left to the right. Another pointless Varig change.

VASCO

Received From: Rainer Schwartz

Print or Image Color: Blue

Background / Bag Color: White, Blue

This Vietnamese bag has a weird cobra or bird within a circle. And of course it has a wire mesh wastebasket pictured. Not sure if this airline is named after Vasco de Gama or not.